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Peter Scull

I am a physical geographer interested in using geospatial tools (geographic information systems and remote sensing) to study environmental change. My research program is generally focused on topics within soil geography and biogeography. For example, I am part of an interdisciplinary and international team of researchers studying church forest dynamics in the highlands of northern Ethiopia. Recently, however, I have also become interested in critical GIS, in particular the erosion of locational privacy.

Degree

BS, University of New Hampshire, 1994; MS, Michigan State University, 1996; PhD, San Diego State University/University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002.

Scull, P. and Richardson, J.* (2007) Reconstructing the Pre-European Settlement Forest Composition of Central New York State from Ranked Timber Observations, The American Midland Naturalist. 158: 446-460.